No Game No Life

An anime I watched recently and thoroughly enjoyed. It's about these siblings who are absolute geniuses. They center this genius power, and their entire lives, around gaming. So they get sucked into a computer and into a different universe where everything is decided through games. Naturally, they win every single game because as a team, this brother and sister duo is unbeatable.

Just to get this out of the way: it has an awesome story line, very clever, (a little too much fanservice), and the art is pretty good. Watch it.

Now, to get to what I really wanted to write about. There is a memorable line that they said several times that really stuck with me (definition of memorable duh). "Every game is won before it even begins." That is how this brother and sister duo are able to defeat every opponent: they research, study, calculate, prepare, so that they ultimately win the game before it has even begun.

There is always someone out there who has already won the game. They have already calculated all the angles and sides. The equations have been solved. X has been found. Before the timer even moves past the zero mark. Whether it's a game of, "who can get the highest score on the physics exam" or a literal game of rock paper scissors, someone has already claimed the winning slot.

This seems unfair.  What about everyone else? Nothing is fair. But who is that someone? There is no exclusion to who that someone is.  Because anyone: you or I...

Can be that someone who wins every game before it even begins.